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Oregon Social Hygiene Society letter to Washington Senator Wesley L. Jones, encouraging him to support Senator George Chamberlain's bill to eradicate venereal disease, June 12, 1918

Wesley L. Jones served as a United States Representative for Washington State, 1899-1908, and as a Senator for Washington State, 1909-1919.The bill mentioned in this letter would be passed by the United States Congress in July 1918. Known as the Chamberlain-Kahn Act, it made funds available for the identification, treatment, and eradication of venereal disease among civilian communities.